New desires, new selves : sex, love, and piety among Turkish youth

New desires, new selves : sex, love, and piety among Turkish youth /

As Turkey pushes for its place in the global pecking order and embraces neoliberal capitalism, the nation has seen a period of unprecedented shifts in political, religious, and gender and sexual identities for its citizens. In New Desires, New Selves, Gul Ozyegin shows how this social transformation...

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Main Author: Ozyegin, Gul, 1955- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, 2015
Subjects:
Youth > Turkey > Social conditions.
Youth > Sexual behavior > Turkey.
Youth > Religious life > Turkey.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1 Virginal Façades
  • 2 Making a New Man: Recognition, Romance, Sex, and Neoliberal Masculinity
  • 3 New Pious Female Selves: The Feminist "Vein" Within and the Troubling Gender Divide
  • 4 Desire between "Doing" and "Being": Ä°bne (Faggot) and Gey (Gay)
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix I: Tables
  • Appendix II: Sampling Procedure
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index
  • About the Author.

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